Good Scouts

The efficient Scout is an American animated short film directed by Jack King from the year 1938.

Action

Donald Duck with his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie on Scout tour of Yellowstone National Park. He wants them doing things to teach, but makes for more chaos than teaching. When one of his nephews want to cut down with an ax a small tree, Donald shows him that you should always make great trees - only he sees that his chosen example is a petrified tree. Also the Zeltbauen goes wrong, because Donald bends down a tree top to put the tarp over the tense tree. When solves the tether, Donald is hurled through the air. He makes the most of its location and splattered with ketchup, to scare his nephew a fright. He promptly is fully bandaged from the three, and can not see. He lands in a honey jar.

A bear comes along and licks the honey from him. When Donald blind gives him a slap, the bear is angry. Only about Donald can get away from him and lands in his escape on a geyser. The bear stands high above him on a ledge. The geyser erupts and Donald is carried to the same height as the bear. As Huey, Dewey and Louie want to help her uncle, throw ever larger boulders on the geyser, but are thrown again and again into the air and hit Donald. The largest spherical chunk is finally big enough that in addition to Donald and the bear will fit it. Donald is now taking on the ball to his heels, and the bear followed him. Huey, Dewey and Louie go to sleep. Even in the twilight Donald flees before the bear.

Production

The efficient scouts came on July 8, 1938 as part of the Disney animated series Donald Duck out in Technicolor. Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie were spoken by Clarence Nash.

Awards

The efficient Scouts in 1939 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " nomination, but could not prevail against Ferdinand, the bull itself.